Chinese Cinema

Yingjin ZHANG, Ph.D. (Stanford)

Yingjin Zhang received his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1987 and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University in 1992. Before joining the UCSD faculty in 2001 as Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies, he taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he was honored with an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 1996. He served as President of the American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature in 1993-94 and received, among others, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 1995-96, a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999, and a Fulbright China Research Fellowship in 2003-04. His teaching interests include Chinese and comparative literature, Chinese cinema (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Asian and Asian American cinema, media industry, visual culture, urban studies, transnational cultural politics, and cultural history. Apart from Chinese books, he has published six books and numerous essays in English with academic presses such as Curzon, Duke, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Routledge, and Stanford. His research articles in Chinese and English have appeared in American Studies, Asian Cinema, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, Cinema Journal, Comparative Literature in China, Concentric, Con-temporary, Contemporary Cinema, Contemporary Writers Review, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies and Literary Theory, East-West Film Journal, Film Art, Journal of Beijing Film Academy, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Modern China, Modern Chinese Literature, New Cinemas, Positions, Reading, Studies of Modern Chinese Literature, Tamkang Review, Twenty-First Century, Unitas, and World Literature Today.

AWARDS

Fulbright China Research Fellowship in 2003-04, Research Grant, UCSD Academic Senate, 2003-2004 Mini Grant, UC Pacific Rim Research Program, 2003-2004 Instructional Improvement Award, UCSD Academic Affairs, 2002-2003 Faculty Fellowship, UCSD Center for the Humanities, Fall 2002 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana U, 2000, 1996, 1995, 1993 Summer Faculty Fellowship, NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), 1999 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana U, 1997 Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, U of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1995-1996 Pre-dissertation Graduate Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 1991-1992

Books and Special Issue in English

Yingjin Zhang. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China	U of Hawaii Press 2009.
Yingjin Zhang. Mingxing: Chinese Stars and Stardom a special issue, six articles, ed. with Mary Farquhar.	Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2.2 2008.
Yingjin Zhang. From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China (co-edited with Paul Pickowicz).	Rowman & Littlefield 2006.
Yingjin Zhang. Chinese National Cinema.	London: Routledge, 2004.
Yingjin Zhang. Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema.	Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002.
Yingjin Zhang. Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (edited and with an introduction).	Stanford: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Yingjin Zhang. The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender.	Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Yingjin Zhang. China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature (edited and with an introduction).	Stanford: Stanford University Press 1998.
Yingjin Zhang. Encyclopedia of Chinese Film (co-authored with Zhiwei Xiao).	London: Routledge, 1998.